A close critical look of India's National Mental Health Survey 2016 by Rajeshkrishna P. Bhandary, Soyuz John, Anil Kumar M. Nagaraj, Samir K. Praharaj, Chythra R. Rao, Muralidhar M. Kulkarni, Sheena K. Agarwal

“…Further, the methodology of the survey makes it difficult for an accurate calculation of the prevalence of individual major psychiatric disorders. The survey has been appraised using a standard checklist for prevalence studies. …”
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The psychometric properties of the Thai version of the Zuckerman–Kuhlman-Aluja personality questionnaire by Tinakon Wongpakaran, Nahathai Wongpakaran, Zsuzsanna Kövi

“…Abstract The Five-Factor Model of personality traits has consistently demonstrated expected associations with features of psychiatric disorders, both within the general population and clinical settings. …”
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NREM and REM sleep parasomnias: clinical cases and literature review by K. Teišerskytė, I. Čelpačenko, E. Pajėdienė

“…Detailed sleep history and clinical examination are of essential significance in differential diagnosis between sleep disorders, nocturnal epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders. Non-pharmacological interventions such as sleep hygiene and safe sleeping environment play an important role in management of parasomnias. …”
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The Comorbidity of Reduplicative Paramnesia, Intermetamorphosis, Reverse-Intermetamorphosis, Misidentification of Reflection, and Capgras Syndrome in an Adolescent Patient by Ozden Arısoy, A. Evren Tufan, Rabia Bilici, Sarper Taskiran, Zehra Topal, Nuran Demir, M. Akif Cansız

“…Delusional misidentification syndromes may be superimposed on neurological or psychiatric disorders and include delusional beliefs that the people, objects, or places around the patient change or are made to change with one another. …”
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Prevalence of dual diagnosis in the south of Peru: descriptive clinical study by Jonathan A. Zegarra-Valdivia, Brenda Nadia Chino Vilca, Ernesto Cazorla Perez

“…Comorbidity between substance use disorders and other psychiatric disorders or dual diagnosis (PD) is characterized by difficulty in their therapeutic approach, constant relapses and hospital admissions, as well as higher violent and criminal behavior. …”
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Rapunzel Syndrome: A Rare Postpartum Case by Teshome Tegene, Yahia Foda, Omar Hussain, Kolawole Oloniyo, Ngoc-Tram Ha, Geeta Manikonda

“…This unusual syndrome is often associated with psychiatric disorders, affecting young women most commonly. …”
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Transcranial Alternating Current and Random Noise Stimulation: Possible Mechanisms by Andrea Antal, Christoph S. Herrmann

“…In future, the methods may be applicable in therapy of neurological and psychiatric disorders that are due to malfunctioning brain oscillations.…”
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Corticostriatal contributions to dysregulated motivated behaviors in stress, depression, and substance use disorders by Benjamin M. Siemsen, Daniela Franco, Mary Kay Lobo

“…Coordinated network activity, particularly in circuits arising from the prefrontal cortex innervating the ventral striatum, is crucial for normal processing of reward-related information which is perturbed in several psychiatric disorders characterized by dysregulated reward-related behaviors. …”
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Progress of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease by BAI Yu⁃tong, YANG An⁃chao, ZHANG Jian⁃guo

“…As a mature neuromodulation technique, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been widely used in the treatment of various neurological and psychiatric disorders. Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the earliest indications for DBS and has received the most treatment so far. …”
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of a Generalized Anxiety Disorder Case Comorbid with Health Anxiety by Nalan Kara

“…Introduction: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a chronic psychiatric disorder which affects the person’s quality of life. …”
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The glucocorticoid hypothesis of depression: history and perspectives by G. T. Shishkina, N. N. Dygalo

“…They are important regulators of the transcriptional activities of numerous genes, including the gene for such a plasticity-related protein as the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) which has been implicated in psychiatric disorders. In addition to direct effects on gene transcription, changes in expression of GR themselves resulting from stress and/or glucocorticoid effects, in turn can modify the functional responses to subsequent stimuli. …”
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Possible Involvement of TLRs and Hemichannels in Stress-Induced CNS Dysfunction via Mastocytes, and Glia Activation by Adam Aguirre, Carola J. Maturana, Paloma A. Harcha, Juan C. Sáez

“…During pregnancy, the previous responses promoted by viral infections and other proinflammatory conditions are common and might predispose the offspring to develop psychiatric disorders and neurological diseases. Such disorders could eventually be potentiated by stress and might be part of the etiopathogenesis of CNS dysfunctions including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.…”
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The Rapunzel Syndrome: An Unusual Trichobezoar Presentation by Luiz Roberto Lopes, Priscilla Sene Portel Oliveira, Eduardo Marcucci Pracucho, Marcelo Amade Camargo, João de Souza Coelho Neto, Nelson Adami Andreollo

“…The Rapunzel syndrome is an unusual form of trichobezoar found in patients with a history of psychiatric disorders, trichotillomania (habit of hair pulling) and trichophagia (morbid habit of chewing the hair), consequently developing gastric bezoars. …”
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High Prevalence of Poststroke Depression in Ischemic Stroke Patients in Ethiopia by Fikru Tsehayneh, Abenet Tafesse

“…There is limited information and research carried out regarding the prevalence of poststroke depression (PSD) in the study area. Psychiatric disorders complicate a significant proportion of patients suffering from stroke. …”
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Combined Dexamethasone Suppression-Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Stimulation Test in Studies of Depression, Alcoholism, and Suicidal Behavior by Leo Sher

“…The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) is the most frequently used test to assess HPA system function in psychiatric disorders. Patients who have failed to suppress plasma cortisol secretion, i.e., who escape from the suppressive effect of dexamethasone, have a blunted glucocorticoid receptor response. …”
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Aaron Temkin BECK: After Cricitical Thinking to A Creative Psychotherapy Theory] by Mehmet DÝNÇ

“…Moreover he not only developed and tested an effective short-term treatment (cognitive therapy) for depression, but he and his former students have successfully adapted cognitive therapy to a wide range of other psychiatric disorders as well. Numerous controlled clinical trials have now demonstrated that cognitive therapy is effective in a variety of psychiatric conditions including depression, bulimia nervosa, hypochondriasis, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, body dysmorphic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. …”
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Personality Disorders in Persons with Gender Identity Disorder by Dragana Duišin, Borjanka Batinić, Jasmina Barišić, Miroslav L. Djordjevic, Svetlana Vujović, Marta Bizic

“…Investigations in the field of gender identity disorder (GID) have been mostly related to psychiatric comorbidity and severe psychiatric disorders, but have focused less on personality and personality disorders (PDs). …”
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Aaron Temkin BECK: After Cricitical Thinking to A Creative Psychotherapy Theory by Mehmet DİNÇ

“…Moreover he not only developed and tested an effective short-term treatment (cognitive therapy) for depression, but he and his former students have successfully adapted cognitive therapy to a wide range of other psychiatric disorders as well. Numerous controlled clinical trials have now demonstrated that cognitive therapy is effective in a variety of psychiatric conditions including depression, bulimia nervosa, hypochondriasis, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, body dysmorphic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. …”
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The Role Of Early Maladaptive Schemas And Coping Strategies In Substance Dependence by Bikem HACIÖMEROĞLU, Mehmet AK, Beyazit GARİP, Alper ÇINAR, Emel CONGOLOĞLU

“…Methods: Thirty-two patients diagnosed with substance dependence and 31 control subjects without any psychiatric disorders were evaluated via Young Schema Questionnaire-SF, COPE, and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I). …”
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Intimate Partner Violence from Schema Therapy Perspective by Ayse Gokcen Gundogmus, Suheyla Dogan Bulut, Yasir Safak

“…Schema Therapy developed by Jeffrey Young is a psychotherapy method used in the treatment of many psychiatric disorders, particularly personality disorders. …”
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